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Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 2000:862 E.g. the suffix ‘dom’ in the word ‘freedom’ indicates that the word is a noun in
English.
2.7 Word Classes
Kaplan 1989:108 divides word classes into two groups: major and minor. The major classes include nouns, verbs, adjective and adverbs. The minor classes
include pronoun, preposition, conjunction and interjection. Therefore the discussion of word-shifts will be focused on the major classes of word since the possibility to
identify word-shifts is larger than the minor classes of word.
2.7.1 Major Classes of Word
The major classes of word include noun, verb, adjective and adverb. Followings are the description of the major classes of words by Wren and Martin
1975:4: a.
Noun A word used as the name of a person, place, or thing.
Example: king, sun, rose. b.
Verb A word used to say something about some person, place, or thing.
Example: wrote, jump, drive. c.
Adjective
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Example: brave, beautiful, lazy. d.
Adverb A word used to add something to the meaning of verb, an adjective, or another
adverb. Example: tomorrow, quickly, this afternoon.
2.7.2 Minor Classes of Word
The minor classes of word are pronoun, preposition, conjunction and interjection.
a. Pronoun
A word used instead of a noun. Example: he, she, it.
b. Preposition
A word used with a noun or a pronoun to show how the person or thing denoted by the noun or pronoun stands in relation to something else.
Example: in, of, under. c.
Conjunction A word used to join words or sentences.
Example: and, but, although. d.
Interjection A word which expression some sudden feeling.
Example: Hurrah, Alas, Ohh.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH
3.1 Research Method
The analysis in this thesis uses library research. Some related references, such books and DVD, are used to support the theory. The data are collected from DVD
containing the subtitles of Sherlock Holmes Movie. This analysis deals with descriptive qualitative method. It refers to a research
explaining the analysis or a hypothesis of a research. The formula dealing with calculating data is only used to support the analysis the data. The formula is not
intended to be the main focus on the research. Nazir 1998: 64 says that descriptive method is a method of research that makes the description of the situation of event or
occurrence. So, this method only performs the more basic accumulative data. Therefore, descriptive design is a research design which is intended only to describe
the variable.
3.2 Data Collecting Method
The data are gathered by transcript the subtitle of Sherlock Holmes movie, the Source Language SL is English and the Target Language TL is Bahasa Indonesia.
The length of the movie is about 2 hours 1 minute.
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